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There are actual regional American accents. Texas has one, and both Bush's have a slight case. Supposedly Oregon and Washington, the Pacific NW states where I live, have a subtle one too, but I can't hear it. Now I can definately hear the accent from the various states of stupid. I have...

I think I have at least some concept of what the problem is. And no this bail out won't fix the base problem, but it will give some breathing room to the credit markets by re-capitalizing the mortgage/banking sector and thereby gaining some room for the entire economy. Our economy runs on...

Dell has Seagate 1 TB for $109.99 again; Newegg has Seagate 1.5TB for $189.95

My feeling towards the bail-out is that the government needs to additionally collect some form of ownership in the companies for the bad debts that it is taking on. Somewhere equivilent to the original value of the debts should be transfered as stock or a % of the company. What the purchase of...

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I like the cheap Plantronics headsets. I'm sure they are not the best, but they seem to last and work for my uses. I have a bunch of these: Audio 90 Since you prefer behind the neck maybe these will do for you: Audio 340

I just can't resist quoting you, now that you've seen the video. I see it now, It's all Katie's fault with that hard hitting go for the throat journalistic style. She is a couger...:jumpin:

Perhaps the Democrats wanted it to tank, so as to make the upcoming election even more favorable to the Democrats knowing that in bad economic times voters vote out the party in power - The Bush administration/Republicians.

The congressional leadership really dropped the ball on that one. The whole point of the previous week of negociation was to come up with a compromise that could at least be tolerated. They are supposed to know if it does not have the votes, continue negociating, and especially not to bring it...

Everyone, Don't forget to watch the upcoming Biden - Palin debate.

It's also my understanding that some calculations will be done via GPU via CUDA using upper-end NVidia cards to speed up processing as compared to CPU-only.

Just a correction, the 9800X2 only does 10,000PPD per card, not 20K. I was just thinking of getting two.

As winter approaches, I'm seriously considering getting some Nvidia cards (9800X2 or 9600 Gso) to GPU fold as more efficient than powering up the X2 machines that I shut down during the summer (They were powered up as needed, rather than 24x7 folding). I just don't think that $60 and 80W per...

The money comes from the ability of the government to borrow: These purchases just get tagged onto the current deficit. In the end, everyone pays, but the point is that everyone will pay a lot less than the cost of these large-scale financial instutions failing. The agencies will at some...

Also, I setup Dan Shearer's folding, so he is running the following one 1.8GHz C2D notebook running two uni-processor clients one ? C2D desktop running two uni-processor clients. One 2.8GHz P4 running one uni-processor client. He is producing somewhere between 800-1000PPD.

I was just wondering what folding setups people are using now? My current setup is as the following P5-133XL's setup

Just have them google "cracking vista password" ...

If the database is an important production system and you can't test the choices, I wouldn't move it and take the risk. The potential for the performance to tank does exist. Further, you will have a lot more risk in the future because once on a VM it is now dependant on a lot more variables as...

Again, the performance will be worse but the question is how much. My suggestion is actually test it and see if you can live with the performance decrease. The less contention the better and there is nothing stopping you from having multiple virtual hard drives on multiple independant HD's but...

Yes, you are correct that a VM adds an additional layer between the HW and the application so it will not run as efficiently as a native machine. However, that inefficiency may not matter as much as the ability to better use the other resources of that machine. It all depends on your needs and...

Just an observation, if you disable some of the SATA ports the resource conflict goes away and the Promise controllers work but then you lose all those SATA drives so in the end you don't gain anything ... P.S. I've tried all the Promise controller from the Ultra33 all the way to the...

I'm actually accumulating quanties of small drives because modern MB's have only one PATA socket, rather than two, and there seems to be a consistant resource conflict between SATA controllers and the old promise controllers so it gets difficult to use the tons of small HD's and controllers I have.

I got it yesterday, and my experiance is unfortunately "boring" ...

I like 1.5TB drives for their ability to drive the price of .75-1.0TB drives lower. In general, I rarely need to have the absolutely largest drives availiable and can compensate by buying more of the more cost effective smaller drives.

P.S. As far as I can tell Honda is incredibly reliabile having owned an Accord since July 1996 with only one non-maintence repair over the entire lifetime of the automobile: A door lock controller failed last year. 12 years with only one relatively minor repair -- How can one argue poor...

I seriously doubt that CR accepted gifts: the risk vs reward just to bad that it doesn't make any sense that they would. They claim that all the stuff they test are bought anonomously from retail establishments. If someone could actually prove that CR had accepted gifts there would be some...

Customer satisfaction is a joke. That won't identify the percent of people people that had transmission problems or how many people needed brake work. The most customer satisfaction can be used for is the customer's expectations were satisfied and that is not even close to a good reliability...

Consumer Reports accepts no advertising ...

While I agree that commodity storage matters for the vast majority, there will always be a price premium for super-high performance too.

GPU Folding is not 100% -- Everytime it sends/receives a WU there will be a minute or two with 0% allowing it to cool somewhat. At current time with WU's in the 250pt range and 4000-5000 points per day will produce around 15 cool-offs every 24hrs.

Why Nvidia chips are defective Pt. 1 Why Nvidia chips are defective Pt. 2

Spammers commonly send to every Email address that they can construct using any permutation and letters, numbers, and names that they can think of. What's interesting, to me, is that I created a email address Nul@comcast.net intending it for situations where I was required to supply a...

Stanford Internet Performance is a better BW testing service. I tried it and I like it because it gives so much more information than the standard internet BW testing services. After trying it - Click the more details button and the statistics button ...

Unlikely, the next generation of 45nm Phenoms are going to be released very near Intel's i7 (Nehalem). Even if AMD improves their performance, power, and price somewhat from the die-shrink, Intel will have something to match and exceed them with. The i7 will be as good and in some ways much...

Stanford Internet Performance I tried it and I like it because it gives so much more information than the standard internet BW testing services. After trying it - Click the more details button and the statistics button ...

http://www.betanews.com/article/Comcast_to_deploy_250_GBmonth_usage_caps_in_October/1219958122 According to Comcast, this is not a new policy but rather simply an old one that they are finely making open. They are also reserving the right to traffic-shape in a prtotcol indiscriminate way ...

It shouldn't effect you with your business service. I have absolutely no problem with an open cap. It means that customers can choose service providers based on their needs assuming no monopoly. My problem with Comcast was that they were previously hiding what they were doing with direct...

AMD screwed it up with the first release. After that, no one wanted them, even fixed. They had their chance, they blew it.

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Because the arguement is to replace the Antec case that has a PSU with a HEC without one dropping the price from 85 to 35 which saves $50

I'm getting 7.2 cents per KWh so 8 cents does not seem unreasonable. One issue that may matter is that with the removal of the PS, there may be no other way to remove the heat. With many machines, the PS is the only case fan. The other issue is how does one conviently cover the PS hole? Does...

If you are going to block all potentially problem cookies by hand you will spend all your time doing it. There are far too many and they are growing faster than you could block them.

I use Spybot Search and destroy's immunize function to block problem-type cookies from interfering.

What I'd really like to know would be the power savings just between the 380W Antec PS and a Pico PS (With the brick). The efficiency of a 380W PS should be low at the below 100W range and the Pico should be very high. It would not surprise me if you couldn't gain 10W just there. Further...

I will agree that you will lose performance using the flash drive, but you will also gain cost and efficiency. It all depends on the tradeoffs that you are willing to accept. I too really dislike PXE after my first experiance with it, I swore I would never do that again ... As to the AC-DC...

Since the optical drive will rarely be used - Simply offer it as an optional accessory and price it out of the base model. You can do the same with a HD if necessary.

It may be sacrilege but do you need a local HD? How about an (internally stored) bootable flash-drive with the OS and applications pre-installed with the assumption that virtually all storage would actually occur over the network rather than locally. Use the saved money for the Pico PS which...

Where you got me confused is your "Workstation" designation rather than a low-end business PC. I looked at your original system build and it was just plain wrong for a Workstation. I was trying to show you what a very high performance workstation machine that was low power would look like...

Just note that there is no less avail for ITX parts than you are going to have with your Pico PS's

Because MB's use power. More components, means more power usage and the smaller the mb the fewer components which correlates to lower power. Download the users manual and look at the power-usage of that itx MB and then compare it with any atx MB. Also, look at the power usage of the Intel...